Explosive-engine.



No. 650,736. Patented May. 29, 1900. H. SUTTDN.

EXPLUSIVE ENGINE. (Application led. July 10, 1 899.)

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,736, dated May 29, 1900.

Application filed July 10, 1899. Serial Noi 72 3,378. (No modell) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY SUTTON, musicseller, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at No. 292 Bourke street, Melbourne, in the British Colony of Victoria, have inventedan ImprovementinExplosive=Engines, (for which I applied for a patent in Victoria on the 7th day of December, 1898, No. 15,777; in Great Britain on the 10th day of January, 1899, No. 634, and in France on the 24th day of January, 1899, No. 273,147,) of Whichvthe following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel, simple, efficient, and economical explosive or gas engine; and it consists in the features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figures l and 2 are sectional views illustrating the construction of the vaporizer or mixer. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section of part of a twin-cylinder engine fitted with my improved vaporizer.

The reference-numeral 1 in Fig. 3 represents an oil or spirit supply pipe leading from the reservoir and attached either permanently or by a coupling to a hollow metal casing or cylinder 3, fitted with a depending nipple 4 and formed with air-inlet openings or holes 5 around its lower end about on a level with the upper end of the nipple. This depending nipple 4 is formed with a smallV A adjusted can remain fixed for the particular kind of oil, spirit, or other liquid fuel which is being used.

The depending nipple 4 projects into a cylindrical or other shaped tube or compartment 9, communicating through apassage or vapor-chamber 10 with the inlet-valves 11, as shownin Fig. 3. The lower end of the compartment 9 is provided with a small hole 12, communicating with a waste-pipe 13, that leads direct to the atmosphere or into any suitable vessel provided to receive any surplus oil or spirit which might not bevaporized within the compartment 9.

Across the compartment 9 are fixed mixing or vaporizing devices 141, Figs. 1, 2, and 3. These mixing and atomizing devices comprise, essentially, plates or sheets arranged across the chamber or compartment 9, each of said sheets or plates being provided with openings or mesh, and the several openings inthe several plates being successively diminished in size from the upper plates to the lower ones, as shown, thereby securing successful atomizing. It will be obvious that I may employ perforated plates for these atomizing devices, or they may be made from wire-gauze, as preferred, the perforations in the several sheets to be gradually finer toward the bottom, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. If preferred, perforated metal plates, with perforations of gradually-decreasing size, might be used for the upper plates and with a sheet of fine wire-gauze across the bottom, or perforated plates may be used for one or more of the upper series of devices and sheets of gauze for one or more of the lower series.

In order that the oil or spirit may be delivered evenly and in a regular manner by the depending nipple 4, it is necessary that the supply shall be maintained at a fixed and uniform head or pressure.

The vapor chambers or passages 10 lead from the mixer 9 to the inlet or suction valves 11 of each cylinder, as shown in Fig. 3, where 11a represents the exhaust-valves.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- 1. In a gas-engine, the combination with a vaporizingchamber, of a needle-valve adj ustable in the inlet to said chamber, a cap to inclose the exposed end of said valve, and

atomizing devices consisting of plates orsheets arranged across said chamber and having openings or mesh, successively diminishing in size, substantially as described.

2. In a gas-engine, the combination with a IOO all

vaporizing-chamber of an adjustable needlevalve in the inlet to said chamber, a cap to inclose the outer exposed end of said valve, and atoinizing,r Sheets, or plates, extending across an enlarged or expanded portion of said chamber, said plates having successivelysmaller openings, and the gas-inlet being provided with a limited air-passage around it, substantially as described.

HENRY SUTTON.

fitnessesz EDWARD WATERS, WALTER SMYTHE BAYToN. 

